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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Twitter plans to wind down its legacy verified program, first introduced in June 2009, and remove legacy verified checkmarks starting on April 1, 2023 — The social network, which the mega-billionaire bought last year in a debt-heavy $44 billion deal, announced on Thursday that starting April 1 …
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@verified: On April 1st, we will begin winding down our legacy verified program and removing legacy verified checkmarks. To keep your blue checkmark on Twitter, individuals can sign up for Twitter Blue here: https://twitter.com/... Organizations can sign up for https://twitter.com/...... https://twitter.com/...
Mark Frauenfelder / Boing Boing: Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to hide their checkmarks to avoid shaming and mockery
Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra: Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to hide their blue checkmarks to avoid the shame https://boingboing.net/... https://twitter.com/...
Ian Bogost / The Atlantic: Blue Check Marks Were Always Shameless
Adam Tinworth / One Man & His Blog: The Tickpocalypse is upon us
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: Alternate idea: pay me to put the checkmark back on my profile after April 1. Pay me many American dollars.
Nina Raemont / CNET: Legacy Blue Check Marks on Twitter Are Going Away Next Month
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: Twitter to un-verify people who don't pay $8/month starting on April Fools' Day
Eva / @evacide: This is the natural end-game in the process of turning the blue check from a verification of identity to a source of ridicule and shame. https://twitter.com/...
Kate Duffy / Insider: AOC criticizes Elon Musk for plans to remove Twitter's legacy blue checkmarks on April Fool's day
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / @aoc: Last time they tried this someone pretended to be Eli Lilly and tanked their stock price by pretending insulin was free https://twitter.com/...
Michael Grothaus / Fast Company: With legacy verification ending, will Twitter's blue checks become the new scarlet letter?
Stephanie Mlot / PCMag UK: Twitter Plans to Kill ‘Legacy Verified’ Checkmarks on April 1
William Gallagher / AppleInsider: Starting April 1, all a Twitter blue checkmark will mean is the user is paid
Drew Gooden / @drewisgooden: the only value of a twitter blue checkmark now is that people might mistake you for someone who is actually notable. if you get rid of every other checkmark, then the twitter blue checkmark literally means nothing. they're actually devaluing their own product by doing this. https://twitter.com/...
@eve6: Humbly requesting that you remove ours immediately so people don't think we're a white nationalist with 30 followers https://twitter.com/...
@datruthdt: The purpose of verification was completely lost in all this. The point is to protect people from impersonators. Random Joe with 100 followers doesn't need to be verified because he doesn't have people being stupid pretending to be him or role playing as him. https://twitter.com/...
Charles Gaba / @charles_gaba: Having a blue check is about to go from telling others you are who you say you are to telling others you're an idiot who willingly gives $96/year to a billionaire for no reason. https://twitter.com/...
Ford Fischer / @fordfischer: I pay for Twitter Blue, and I actually did so well before the Elon takeover as well. I agree that legacy checkmarks need to be vastly more accessible, and were inequitably granted. But this website will be unusable if imposter accounts are indistinguishable. https://twitter.com/...
Marcel / @basicallyidowrk: Social media is dying. It's pay to play on every app. https://twitter.com/...
Benjamin Allbright / @allbrightnfl: This will end whatever the blue check mark thing is for me. I never asked for it, I don't understand why people care enough to pay for it. Only thing it evenr meant to me was that you knew I was actually me and not an imitator or parody account. https://twitter.com/...
Shauna / @goldengateblond: all it means now is “I'm dumb enough to pay a billionaire's bills” so ok https://twitter.com/...
Chris Taylor / @christaylor_nyc: lol https://twitter.com/...
Dana Loesch / @dloesch: Maybe you guys could fix the suppression and shadow banning first before asking for money. https://twitter.com/...
George Hahn / @georgehahn: Bye, Twitter. I'm out. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Weinstein / @adamweinstein: Such an auspicious start date! https://twitter.com/...
Richard Signorelli / @richsignorelli: This will actually devalue the check-mark and will end up being another costly failure. Twitter to Revoke Legacy Verification Blue Check-Mark Badges in April - Variety https://variety.com/...
Patrick Daugherty / @rotopat: At New Twitter, no one can question our commitment to making useful, necessary features absolutely worthless https://twitter.com/...
Ed Zitron / @edzitron: So if they take away all the blue checks and just leave the paid for blue checks does musk not realise that removes almost the entire reason anyone bought them in the first place
Aakash Chopra / @cricketaakash: What if most of the accounts that were verified by @Twitter (to protect their identity and prevent impersonation) decided not to sign up for Twitter Blue?? Create a legacy and then kill the legacy yourself the Twitter way. 😍 https://twitter.com/...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: Please talk about and impersonate Max Tani. It is important that people pretend to be Max Tani, a very important person who deserves to be talked about and impersonated. https://twitter.com/...
@variety: Elon Musk's Twitter also will start charging organizations $1,000/month for verified status https://variety.com/...
Valerie Bertinelli / @wolfiesmom: He must be trying to make twitter obsolete. It's the only explanation. Every single decision he has made has put this app deeper in it's grave. https://twitter.com/...
Ashton Pittman / @ashtonpittman: Nah, y'all can have your silly little meaningless check marks back. They will soon have no meaning except “I paid $8 for Twitter.” https://twitter.com/...
John Scalzi / @scalzi: Oh, well. Twitter Blue isn't worth $8 a month to me, and I've already put alternate verification of my identity in my Twitter bio. https://variety.com/...
Mikki Kendall / @karnythia: You're going to make it cool to not be verified. This is going to be hilarious https://twitter.com/...
Peter Gleick / @petergleick: On April 1st, having a blue check mark will simply mean you're a sucker. I won't miss it. https://twitter.com/...
Kevin M. Kruse / @kevinmkruse: As of April 1st, only the fools will have checkmarks. https://twitter.com/...
Ananya Bhattacharya / Quartz: Twitter is about to start purging unpaid blue ticks
Vinny Thomas / @vinn_ayy: imagine paying for a secret shape https://twitter.com/...
Scott Hanselman / @shanselman: Maybe the real blue checks were the friends we made along the way https://twitter.com/...
@froomkin: I wonder if every organization is going to start paying a grand to @elonmusk — or none. https://variety.com/...
@marshall89hd: Part of the whole reason for verification was to stop a name/likeness from being impersonated to scam others for example.. was delighted I got my account to a good enough standing to get verified. But.. that was for nothing and deemed as corrupt. Cheers Elon pal 👍 https://twitter.com/...
Sara Luterman / @slooterman: I'm really looking forward to it being easier for weirdos to impersonate me. This is a great decision with no possible downsides. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Petriello / @mike_petriello: Cool! Surely if I click on this for more information, the app will .. uh .. hmm. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Lindsey Ok / @lindseyyok: Goodbye blue check mark that I earned after years of hard work and now apparently have to pay for. Not happening https://twitter.com/...
Neelesh Misra / @neeleshmisra: Verification is a way to prevent impersonation. Preventing my impersonation is the responsibility of Twitter. I am not going to pay you to do your job. I will not pay to remain verified. You want to take my blue check mark today, please do. @elonmusk @verified https://twitter.com/...
Andy Boxall / @andyboxall: If this actually happens, the blue check will become the official logo of that man's fan club, or an alert you're about to get scammed. https://twitter.com/...
Kate Aronoff / @katearonoff: While there is an unverified class, I am in it, while there is a shitposting element, I am of it, and while there is a suspended account, I am not free https://twitter.com/...
Julia Hava / @binchcity: this whole situation is so sneetch-coded https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@muellershewrote: So to keep my blue check, I have to pay a sad billionaire $11 a month? Welp, it's been a good run, blue check. It's not me. It's you. Don't let the door hitcha. https://twitter.com/...
James Fallows / @jamesfallows: Back last fall, the prevailing opinion was: Virtually no one with a “verified” account will care if Twitter takes it away. Still think that's true. And as it becomes purely a paying proposition, *why* would it be worth paying to keep?? https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: the next election will be hell. I'm about to go to another meeting announcing the abandonment of supporting DEI and epistemology and there's no actual methodology or support for the vacuum about to come and it will be used to get rid of POC https://variety.com/...
Dan Primack / @danprimack: The organization verification cost is $1k per month, which will difficult and/or prohibitive for certain small businesses, nonprofits and local government groups. https://twitter.com/...
Yvette Nicole Brown / @ynb: Take it. Take it TODAY. You won't get a thin dime from me for this white-supremacist-run piece of bird crap. Quote me. #FreeSpeech https://twitter.com/...
Christina Warren / @film_girl@mastodon.social: Like, the brilliant part of verifying people of certain clout (also remember klout, lol) was that they'd be more likely to engage and bring their audiences and fans to Twitter. Making that pay for play and not manual takes that all away.
Christina Warren / @film_girl@mastodon.social: Meanwhile, over on Twitter, Elon is getting rid of legacy check marks, thus ruining the whole reason anyone would pay for Twitter Blue. And I'm expecting this to last 35 seconds until all the celebrities …
Kellen / Droid Life: Twitter to Remove Legacy Verified Checks Because It Wants People to Pay for Them
The Wrap: Twitter to Strip Legacy Verified Accounts of Blue Checks on April 1 - or Is Elon Musk Setting Up an Elaborate Joke?
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Twitter will kill ‘legacy’ blue checks on April 1
Matthew Keys / The Desk: Twitter to remove legacy verified badges on April 1
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Twitter expands Blue globally, will pull checkmarks from accounts that are actually verified next week
Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone: Twitter Says It Will Begin to Kill Legacy Blue Checkmarks in April
Jameel Jaffer / New York Times:
A TikTok ban likely would have to satisfy the most stringent form of First Amendment review in court because it would operate as a prior restraint on speech — The First Amendment has so far played only a bit part in the debate about banning TikTok. This may change.
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Seth Stern / Freedom of the Press Foundation: Unconstitutional TikTok ban would open the door to press censorship
Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: Why TikTok Needed to Pay for Influencers to Attend Anti-Ban Rally
Shira Ovide / @shiraovide: I don't downplay the risks of TikTok. But we need to be honest about the enormity of an attempted ban. Maybe not since Prohibition has there been a ban involving a product so widely used. Plus: the First Amendment Plus: Where else might a ban hammer fall?
@aclu: The government has no right to ban entire platforms and censor the free flow of information. This is a clear violation of our First Amendment rights. https://www.cbsnews.com/...
Aaron Parnas / @aaronparnas: I understand the First Amendment concerns with a potential TikTok ban, and as a member of Gen Z, I understand the impact this app has had on my generation. But, I have serious concerns with TikTok's content moderation (or lack thereof).
Trevor Timm / @trevortimm: Every news article that discusses banning TikTok needs to start directly grappling with the fact that the First Amendment almost certainly would prevent such an act. Pretending otherwise is willfully ignoring the obvious. https://freedom.press/...
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: “If the U.S. government actually tries to shut down [TikTok], the First Amendment will certainly have something to say about it” @JameelJaffer writes. “Users are indisputably exercising First Amendment rights when they post and consume content” on TikTok https://www.nytimes.com/...
@knightcolumbia: “If the U.S. government actually tries to shut down this major communications platform, the First Amendment will certainly have something to say about it,” @JameelJaffer. Read more in today's @nytopinion. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@cendemtech: @JameelJaffer .@JameelJaffer: “A broad coalition of free speech orgs — including @PENamerica, @CenDemTech & the @knightcolumbia First Amendment Institute, which I direct — made essentially this observation in a letter sent to Congress in advance of Thursday's hearing.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jameel Jaffer / @jameeljaffer: Wrote about the proposed TikTok ban and the First Amendment. Tl;dr If the U.S. government wants to shut down a major communications platform, it's going to have to come up with better reasons. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Shira Ovide / @shiraovide: If the government is serious abut banning TikTok, it's time for an honest pitch to the American public. “If you're going to take something from the American public, we need to tell them why,” Tim Wu told me. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Thank you, @JameelJaffer, for finally raising the crucial issue of First Amendment rights in connection with the xenophobic fever to ban TikTok and with it the voices of millions of Americans. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@evan_greer: The First Amendment doesn't care about your feelings, Congress https://www.nytimes.com/...
@cendemtech: .@JameelJaffer: “As to fears relating to #disinformation, the U.S. government has not pointed to evidence that the Chinese government has forced TikTok to align its algorithm with the imperatives of the country's disinformation efforts.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Drew Harwell / @drewharwell: “The First Amendment would require the government to carry a heavy burden of justification. This is an important feature of our system, and not a bug” https://www.nytimes.com/... @JameelJaffer
Jameel Jaffer / Just Security: TikTok and the First Amendment — It's unfortunately commonplace around the world for governments …
@cendemtech: “...as many digital rights advocates have pointed out, the federal gov't could protect Americans' privacy much more effectively — & without [] a categorical ban [of a] platform used by millions of Americans — by enacting comprehensive privacy regulation.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@penamerica: “The legitimacy of our democracy depends on the free trade in information and ideas, including across international borders. Except in... extreme circumstances, citizens should be able to engage freely with the... platforms of their choice”—@JameelJaffer https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social: Thank you, @jameeljaffer, for finally raising the crucial issue of First Amendment rights in connection with the xenophobic fever to ban TikTok and with it the voices of millions of Americans. — There's a Problem With Banning TikTok. …
Laura Ingraham / @ingrahamangle: The CCP's hacks try to hide behind the First Amendment. Opinion | There's a Problem With Banning TikTok. It's Called the First Amendment. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/...
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Erin Doherty / Axios:
As lawmakers ripped TikTok CEO Shou Chew in a congressional hearing on March 23, creators on the app defended the platform with the tag #tiktokhearing — It was a near-perfect split screen: As lawmakers ripped TikTok in a congressional hearing with the company's CEO on Thursday, the app's users took to the platform to defend it.
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Casey Newton / Platformer: How TikTok failed to make the case for itself
Hailey Fuchs / Politico: TikTok's plan to stave off government intervention: Flood D.C. with influencers
Makena Kelly / The Verge: Congress seems more determined to ban TikTok than ever
@tiktokcomms: Our CEO, @shouchew, shares a special message on behalf of the @tiktok_us team to thank our community of 150 million Americans on TikTok ahead of his congressional hearing later this week. Learn more on our Newsroom 👇 https://newsroom.tiktok.com/ ...
Todd Spangler / Variety: TikTok U.S. Ban Would Be ‘Crushing Blow’ to Creators While Benefiting Snapchat, YouTube, Instagram: Experts
Dell Cameron / Wired: The TikTok Hearing Revealed That Congress Is the Problem
Daysia Tolentino / NBC News: After TikTok hearing, users declare their love for the platform — and the CEO
Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: Live Updates: Lawmakers Grill TikTok's Chief About Its Ties to China
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: Will TikTok CEO's congressional testimony stave off a US ban?
Emily Baker-White / @ebakerwhite: 6/ Lawmakers talked over Chew a lot, and sometimes asked questions they then didn't allow him to answer. Seems counterproductive! That said: not to get my hopes up, but there was a heartening amount of talk about legislation that would affect all tech companies, not just TT.
@dealbook: In December, ByteDance said that its employees based in China had retrieved data of U.S. TikTok users, including journalists. The revelations were perhaps the strongest public evidence of privacy violations by TikTok and ByteDance. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Emily Baker-White / @ebakerwhite: Some thoughts on the TikTok hearing today: 1/ When members mentioned spying on American journalists, they were talking about me and my team (and @CristinaCriddle at FT in London). You can read more about that here: https://twitter.com/...
Emily Baker-White / @ebakerwhite: 5c/ There is (much) more that platforms can do to ensure that harmful content doesn't reach users, and we should have those conversations. But this problem is not unique to TT, and the assertion that people who work at these companies don't care about harmful content is wrong.
Michael Tracey / @mtracey: If “censorship” is defined as coercive state action to block, impede, or punish the expression of speech, nothing fits the bill like the government banning an entire social media platform in one fell swoop — instantly curtailing the speech of 100 million Americans who use TikTok
Eugene Scott / @eugene_scott: “If they went ahead with banning TikTok, it would feel like a slap in the face to a lot of young Americans,” Aidan Kohn-Murphy, a creator who used the app to support President Biden in 2020 https://www.axios.com/...
J.D. Capelouto / @jdcapelouto: TikTok is taking over the livestream video space, and that was on full display during the congressional hearing today. The bulk of the users on the streams were (predictably) on CEO Shou Zi Chew's side and mad that members of Congress want to ban the app: https://www.semafor.com/...
Emily Baker-White / @ebakerwhite: 8/ It's wild to have written my first TikTok story just over a year ago, breaking the existence of Project Texas, and sitting in a hearing today basically devoted to it. All this because @SchoofsFeed said to @JohnPaczkowski last year, ‘hey, we should cover TikTok more!’
Lucien Greaves / @luciengreaves: That's right. If China wants all of our personal data they're just going to have to buy it from Facebook like everybody else! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Makena Kelly / @kellymakena: Watching today's hearing, it seemed as if most lawmakers had already made up their minds about TikTok. Wrote about it here! Photo cred @BeccaFarsace. https://www.theverge.com/...
Sapna Maheshwari / @sapna: “The future of TikTok in the US is definitely dimmer and more uncertain today than it was yesterday,” said @LindsayPGorman, head of technology & geopolitics at the German Marshall Fund & a former tech adviser for the Biden admin. https://www.nytimes.com/... w @ceciliakang @dmccabe
Adi Robertson / @thedextriarchy@mastodon.social: It's worrying how many of these hearing questions boil down to lawmakers furiously asking TikTok why it isn't removing things that are almost certainly legal speech, and in some cases specifically asking why they don't take them down *the way they do in China*.
Sheila Dang / Reuters: Potential TikTok ban sends advertisers scrambling
Jacob Fischler / Arkansas Advocate: Members of Congress blast TikTok CEO as bipartisan support for U.S. ban looks possible
Brian Bushard / Forbes: TikTok CEO Spars With Congress Amid Growing Calls For Ban—As Lawmaker Calls Privacy Claims ‘Preposterous’
Marc Schneider / Billboard: TikTok CEO Faces Grilling By Congress Over Security Fears
NPR:
NPR stops producing the Invisibilia, Louder Than a Riot, Rough Translation, and Everyone & Their Mom podcasts, and cuts 10% of staff to close a $30M+ budget gap — NPR moved this week to cut 10 percent of its staff and stop production of a trio of acclaimed seasonal podcasts - Invisibilia …
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@radiogrego, The Hill, @geedee215, @sid_madden, @sid_madden, @chiaraeisner, @joannakakissis, RAIN News, @mrsslrss, @kathmschmidt, @w7voa, @reblavoie, @muldermedia, @leilafadel, Fox News, @rhainacohen, @mikekatzif, @mollymotoole, @jackcorrbit, @themattadams, Podnews, @dennismhogan, @chrishaxel, @y00ree, @petersagal, @emmaeunjoo, @davidakaye, @_natalieescobar, @totalvibration, @hazelcills, @nwquah, @yowei_shaw, @yowei_shaw, @resnikoff, @brandonetc, @athertonkd, @i_oriion, @brihreed, @aubreynpr, @hannarosin, @deggans, @aspiegelnpr, @gabrieljr, @blowryontv, @samjmintz, @haleaziz, @davidfolkenflik, Current and The Wrap
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Gregory Warner / @radiogrego: how to say goodbye to a show that you've made for 6 years? I'll be trying to figure that out. 🙏🙏🙏 to those who have joined me on this ride, so so so many of you. And ❤️to my NPR colleagues who lost their jobs, I'm one of you. I'm sorry. Stay strong. Reach out if you want.
Jared Gans / The Hill: NPR cancels four podcasts amid layoffs
@geedee215: KGB been at NPR for two decades; she's my last remaining colleague from the original Code Switch team. She deserved way better than an email.
@sid_madden: Just got outta therapy. This week has been the strangest knot of emotions. Dazed, proud, enraged, gutted. Two weeks into Season 2, we learned today that @LouderThanARiot is being canceled and that the entire production staff has been laid off.
@sid_madden: Thank you for the kind words. Although I appreciate them, @rodneyology and I still have jobs rn. pls send your support to @gabbybulgarelli @sorayashock @samjleeds @manosundaresan
Chiara Eisner / @chiaraeisner: I was laid off @NPR as part of the massive cuts. I loved the i-team and wanted to stay for years, but here we are. Please let me know if you're looking for a multimedia, bilingual reporter w/ experience investigating environment, healthcare, tech, immigration & criminal justice.
Joanna Kakissis / @joannakakissis: Few at @npr can take a straightforward pitch + elevate it, through intensive reporting + careful architecture, into a masterpiece of storytelling the way @roughly + @radiogrego can. I am gutted we're losing @roughly + its amazing team.🧵 1/4 https://twitter.com/...
Brad Hill / RAIN News: NPR completes promised layoffs, discontinues four podcasts in “existential” cost reduction
Marissa Lorusso / @mrsslrss: I was one of the people laid off from NPR during this brutal round of layoffs. I'm gutted and heartbroken that I won't be able to continue working at @nprmusic on stories I love with people I admire so much. https://www.npr.org/...
Kathleen Schmidt / @kathmschmidt: This is really awful. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Herman / @w7voa: Details on the decimation of @NPR. https://twitter.com/...
Rebecca Lavoie / @reblavoie: It is a mistake to make commercial advertising the only revenue plan for your longform journalism projects. Stations have figured this out, why couldn't NPR? https://twitter.com/...
Steve Mulder / @muldermedia: My time at NPR is coming to an end. Proud of the last 12(!) years, despite the recent rocky months. Very much looking forward to a break. Layoffs this week are affecting 10% of NPR.
Leila Fadel / @leilafadel: We finally know. We lose beautiful work and incredible talents, including the teams that put on the incredible work brought to us from @Roughly @LouderThanARiot @NPRinvisibilia and Everyone & Their Mom. All cancelled. https://www.npr.org/...
Rhaina Cohen / @rhainacohen: 3 of the 5 shows I've worked on in my current role at NPR have been cancelled. So many exceptionally talented colleagues were laid off. I'm mourning their departure & the divestment from the kind of narrative journalism that made me fall in love with audio https://www.npr.org/...
Mike Katzif / @mikekatzif: Today has been hard. Still processing the talent and artistry and crucial voices we just lost. Just so sad for my pals and colleagues. https://twitter.com/...
Molly O'Toole / @mollymotoole: Sad for the state of our industry and those who have dedicated themselves to journalism, often thanklessly. I'm sorry @NPR colleagues. | NPR cancels 4 podcasts amid major layoffs https://www.npr.org/...
Jack Corbett / @jackcorrbit: quick, media companies hire the incredible people npr just fumbled https://twitter.com/...
Matt Adams / @themattadams: louder than a riot invisibilia rough translation everyone & their mom i've worked with every team, each were inspiring and creative and some of the most hardworking. they deserved better. same with those who are no longer at npr after today. https://www.npr.org/...
Dennis Hogan / @dennismhogan: Some context: federal money from grants make up a low single digit percentage of NPR revenue. We have so defunded our culture sector over decades that NPR is public in name only. How can we expect public journalism to fulfill its mission if we don't fund it? https://twitter.com/...
Chris Haxel / @chrishaxel: It's so frustrating to see some of NPR's best, most deeply-reported shows get the ax. Good journalism takes time, which means it's expensive. But it's a worthy investment. https://twitter.com/...
@y00ree: I hope @NPR does the right thing by these shows and including IP in severance packages https://twitter.com/...
Peter Sagal / @petersagal: NPR is making no announcements about who lost their jobs today, instead letting people break the news themselves. It's better that way, but still tough to hear about them, one by one. https://twitter.com/...
Emma Choi / @emmaeunjoo: I can't believe that I got laid off and had a midterm on the same day https://twitter.com/...
David Kaye / @davidakaye: NPR does some of the best public interest journalism in the country (& world) and has easily the best public music program in @nprmusic's tiny desk, and it's struggling economically. show @NPR some love with $$$, people! https://twitter.com/...
Natalie Escobar / @_natalieescobar: I have been so angry and so devastated all day. We are losing so many people whose talents and insights NPR desperately needed. And we are losing podcasts that were successfully bringing in the “young, diverse audiences” NPR says it wants to reach. https://www.npr.org/...
Lars Gotrich / @totalvibration: I'm numb. I'm angry. I still have a job, but many of my brilliant colleagues and friends do not. They will tell their stories when ready. But to top it all off, NPR canceled podcasts prominently featuring brown, Black and queer voices and producers. https://www.npr.org/...
Hazel Cills / @hazelcills: This has been a truly exhausting and frankly sick layoff process. We are losing ridiculously talented people and I genuinely do not know what the fuck NPR is going to do without them. https://www.npr.org/...
Nick Quah / @nwquah: fuckin horrible https://www.npr.org/...
@yowei_shaw: Sending strength & love to everyone at @NPR, especially those laid off. These people are the best of the best, and have been through an excruciating month while still putting out the critical news and programming so many depend on. You are my inspiration. Solidarity forever 💚
@yowei_shaw: Well, looks like my time with NPR is up. Gutted that @NPRinvisibilia the show I love & have given 7+ yrs of my life to has “stopped production”. Gutted to not get to work with my brilliant teammates. Gutted that me & some 100 colleagues I admire have lost our jobs. This sucks.
Ned Resnikoff / @resnikoff: Extending solidarity to any journalists caught up in the newest round of layoffs https://twitter.com/...
Brandon Carter / @brandonetc: 4 podcasts axed. 100+ people laid off. i am aching for my former colleagues and friends at NPR. a gut punch to an organization full of the best people. hiring managers: please scoop up these talented folks. you will not regret it. https://www.npr.org/...
Kelsey D. Atherton / @athertonkd: “a yawning budget gap that stands in excess of $30 million” that's 38% the purchase price of a single F-35A https://jscalc.io/... https://www.npr.org/...
Orion Rummler / @i_oriion: “The layoffs also affect people who work behind the scenes to produce the shows and podcasts, design visual elements for the web, conduct audience research, and do the myriad other functions required of a major news network.” https://www.npr.org/...
Allison Aubrey / @aubreynpr: Not an easy day here. We're losing some invaluable colleagues. My heart goes out to everyone affected #NPRlayoffs https://www.npr.org/...
Hanna Rosin / @hannarosin: Damn. Farewell my beloved and beautiful @NPRinvisibilia @aspiegelnpr @lmillernpr @yowei_shaw @abbywendle https://www.npr.org/...
@deggans: For those who have been asking me about NPR's staff reductions, I remain employed. I have been told everyone affected by the changes in our news division has been notified. Our media correspondent, David Folkenflik, has a story on the changes: https://www.npr.org/...
Alix Spiegel / @aspiegelnpr: Raising a glass to all the hands that made Invisibilia. All the creative thoughtful souls who tried for her and cried for her and hopefully - helped some people along the way. https://www.npr.org/...
Gabe Rosenberg / @gabrieljr: Ugh my heart. The podcasts are the names you might recognize, but I know there's so many brilliant producers, digital folks, and more behind the scenes who deserve better than this. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Lowry / @blowryontv: Covering bad news at your own shop is one of the toughest jobs in journalism. And unfortunately, a lot more journalists have had to experience that in the last few years. https://twitter.com/...
Sam Mintz / @samjmintz: Honestly a striking comment from director of union representing NPR workers, and not the usual kind of union rhetoric that accompanies layoffs. “They had to do something. It's real.” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Hamed Aleaziz / @haleaziz: Awful, awful news. https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Tough day at NPR: Four podcasts canceled, 10 percent of workforce laid off. We'll learn more about who is leaving the network in hours and days to come. My story: https://www.npr.org/...
Tyler Falk / Current: NPR to end production of four podcasts
Jeremy Bailey / The Wrap: NPR Cancels 4 Podcasts as Network Begins Mass Layoffs
Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to spend $1B per year to produce movies for release in thousands of theaters, a big increase from years past, seeking to grow TV+ awareness — Apple Inc. plans to spend $1 billion a year to produce movies that will be released in theaters, according to people familiar …
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Variety, The Verge, @franklinleonard, @frankpallotta, @idownloadblog, The Information, MediaPost, @sonnybunch, @colin_gladman, @masked_investor, @shiraovide, @susanlitv, Gizmodo, Screen Rant, The Hollywood Reporter, 9to5Mac, IndieWire, CNET, The Streamable, Media Play News, TechCrunch and AppleInsider
Discussion:
Rebecca Rubin / Variety: Apple and Amazon Plan to Spend Billions on Movies for the Big Screen. Will the Pricey Gamble Pay Off?
Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge: Apple's plan to spend $1 billion per year on movies means more theatrical releases
Franklin Leonard / @franklinleonard: First question is $1B on production or $1B in total spend, but regardless, since they'll own the catalog, continue to make revenue on the streaming service, and already spend ~$3.5B on marketing (which part of this $1B film spend undeniably is) globally, this makes a lot of sense https://twitter.com/...
Frank Pallotta / @frankpallotta: I'm old enough to remember when experts said theaters were extinct and films would find their home on streaming. With the US box office at -26% vs. pre-pandemic levels, theaters have a ways to go, but are rebounding. Apple sees the writing on the wall. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
@idownloadblog: Bloomberg reports that Apple TV+ will spend $1 billion/year on global theatrical releases for titles like Martin Scorsese's “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Matthew Vaughn's “Argylle,” Ridley Scott's “Napoleon” and others. Cinema stocks jumped on the news. https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jessica E. Lessin / The Information: Let's Talk About Jack Dorsey
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost: Apple Reportedly Poised To Spend $1B Annually On Theatrical Movies
Shira Ovide / @shiraovide: Other big tech companies are setting adrift projects that don't make money AND cutting even deeper. And Apple is like, let's spend billions of dollars more on streaming, a business in which almost no one turns a profit. https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Susan Li / @susanlitv: #Apple TV+ is estimated to have between 20 million and 40 million subscribers, fewer than rivals such as #Netflix and Disney+ #AppleTV $aapl #streaming https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Kevin Hurler / Gizmodo: Apple Is Betting a Billion Dollars on Theatrical Releases
Adam Bentz / Screen Rant: Apple Film Budget Is $1 Billion Dollars With Goal Of Breaking Into Theaters
Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter: Cinema Stocks Jump Amid Report Apple Plans $1 Billion Theatrical Movie Push
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Apple to spend $1 billion annually on movies, aiming for major theatrical releases
David Satin / The Streamable: Apple Plans to Spend $1 Billion Annually on Theatrically-Released Movies to Enhance Profile of Apple TV+
Erik Gruenwedel / Media Play News: Apple TV+ Takes Steps to Lift Profile, Including Big Spend on Original Movies
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Apple reportedly plans to spend $1B a year to release Apple TV+ movies in theaters
William Gallagher / AppleInsider: Apple TV+ to spend $1 billion annually on movie theatrical releases
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Giles Turner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple considers bidding for the streaming rights to a range of English soccer games, including to show Premier League games in the UK, following Amazon
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Julian Clover / Broadband TV News: Apple makes play for English football rights
Nick Turner / @newsynick: Apple has been pretty successful streaming fake Premier League games (Ted Lasso), so why not try for the real thing? https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @turnergs @hellierd @markgurman @danielelepido
Kevin O'Brien / Front Office Sports: Tom Brady Coming Up Aces
Luke Bailey / @imbadatlife: good to add a 4th paid service that still doesn't show all the games https://www.bloomberg.com/...
@irishtimesbiz: Such a move would pit it against the likes of Sky and Amazon https://www.irishtimes.com/... via @IrishTimesBiz
@bloomberguk: The rights under consideration would allow Apple to show Premier League games in the UK, as well as lower league matches run by the English Football League, sources say https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Grace Robertson / @graceonfootball: “The rights under consideration would allow Apple to show Premier League games in the UK, as well as lower league matches run by the English Football League” Bloomberg reporting it is a totally different thing to the gutter press. This seems real. https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@bloomberguk: Such a move would build on Apple's recent expansion into live sports in the US, where it forged a $2.5 billion 10-year deal with Major League Soccer to show games on its TV+ platform Read in full ⬇️ https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Tony Maglio / IndieWire: Every MLS Game — and ‘Ted Lasso’ — Is Not Enough: Apple ‘Considering’ Bid for Premier League
David Satin / The Streamable: Report: Apple Eyeing Bid for English Premier League Streaming Rights in United Kingdom
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Apple again rumored to bid for English Premier League football streaming rights
William Gallagher / AppleInsider: Apple TV+ considering bid to stream UK soccer
New York Times:
The ALA says 2022 saw 1,269 attempts to ban books and other resources in libraries and schools, the most since the group began tracking censorship 20 years ago — A new report from the American Library Association showed a spike in censorship efforts, with 1,269 attempts.
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@alalibrary, @amandalitman, @pgourevitch, @victorerikray, Publishers Weekly, Truthout, The Hill, Boing Boing, New York Daily News, CBS News and Al Jazeera
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@alalibrary: “We don't quarrel with parents who want to guide their children's reading. What we have a problem with is advocacy groups who...demand that everybody read the books that they approve of and not read any other books, and deny that choice to other families.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Amanda Litman / @amandalitman: Yikes: Efforts to ban books nearly doubled in 2022 over 2021. 60% of complaints were directed at books & materials in school libraries and classrooms; 40% were in public libraries. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Philip Gourevitch / @pgourevitch: for all the alarmism about lefty “woke” cancel culture, every single attempted or successful book banning reported here is an assault on freedom of thought and expression and consumption from the GOP right. https://twitter.com/...
Victor Ray / @victorerikray: Of course. As some of us have been saying all along, the alarmism about lefty “cancel culture” laid the ideological groundwork for the current crop of right-wing bans. Contrarian centrists habitually punching left helped this along, too. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Albanese / Publishers Weekly: ALA Reports Shocking Increase in Attempted Book Bans in 2022
Julia Mueller / The Hill: Record book ban attempts reported last year
Jason Weisberger / Boing Boing: American Library Association reports book banning at an all-time high
Martin Baron / Washington Post:
Marty Baron defends objectivity as a journalistic principle, arguing it is neither false balance nor neutrality, but a call for open-mindedness in reporting — Martin Baron was executive editor of The Post from January 2013 through February 2021 and, before that, editor of the Boston Globe for more than 11 years.
Discussion:
@kaitlynjakola, @rjcc, @mariaramirezny, @ijbailey, @ijbailey, @ijbailey, @ijbailey, @ijbailey, @tatecurtis, @ijbailey, @ktumulty, @ktumulty, @ijbailey, @jayrosen_nyu and @bylenasun
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Kaitlyn Jakola / @kaitlynjakola: “Critiquing objectivity” vs. “showing humility” is a false dichotomy: Journalists who call out inherent bias *necessarily* display humility, acknowledging what we perceive as humans is filtered through lived experiences; thus, “objective truth” is a concept of limited usefulness https://twitter.com/...
Richard Lawler / @rjcc: @mediagazer @PostBaron Open minded https://twitter.com/...
@mariaramirezny: “There is an immense universe beyond the lives we ourselves have lived. And if there are constraints on our ability to understand a world beyond our own, we as journalists should strive to overcome them,” writes @PostBaron. Every word of this👏👏👏 https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@ijbailey: But what grates at me the most is this idea that Baron and those of like mind want to adhere to standards and those of us who challenge their view of “objectivity” don't. Heck, I'm surprised he didn't just slur us as “woke.” Guess I should give him a point for that. 12/
@ijbailey: The cute distinction is that the reporter is biased, because we all have biases, but that the process is objective - as though you can really separate the two. We need to acknowledge the complexity of what we do, and the flaws inherent in our processes - because we are human. 8/
@ijbailey: He also got upset when top-notch black reporters challenged him. If you read his piece and the detailed definition of “objectivity” he lays out, I would have to agree with it - in a vacuum. But I know how “objectivity” has played itself out in the real world time and again. 3/
@ijbailey: He calls for more humility. But he and others of like mind express little of that humility inside newsrooms or in discussions about “objectivity.” Not only that, they falsely assert that those of us who dare disagree with them don't really want standards. And that's hogwash. 4/
Curtis L. Tate / @tatecurtis: @ijbailey It's a strange hill to die on.
@ijbailey: If your “objectivity” leads you to suspend a reporter who survived a sexual assault from covering sexual assault stories because she demands high journalistic standards, it's an objectivity I want no part of, for instance. 9/
Karen Tumulty / @ktumulty: This follows an earlier @postopinions column by @lendownie — https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Karen Tumulty / @ktumulty: Two former editors of the @washingtonpost find themselves on different sides of a central debate in journalism today. From @postbaron: We want objective judges and doctors. Why not journalists too? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@ijbailey: While reading this, you should understand that Baron's definition of “objectivity” included him being upset at folks like me for calling out The Post for its handling of a reporter on the issue of sexual assault. 1/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Michael E. Kanell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Atlanta Journal-Constitution EIC Kevin Riley is retiring, to be succeeded by Leroy Chapman Jr., the first Black editor-in-chief in the outlet's 155-year history — Managing Editor Leroy Chapman to succeed Kevin Riley as editor-in-chief. Riley announced retirement Thursday.
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@erniesuggs, @tamarhallerman, @morsea, @nattheproducer, @raju, @michaelbjordan, @jennifer__brett, @errinhaines, @mayatprabhu, @bizwriterkristi, @bluestein, @educationalan, @jeremylredmon, @theamirvera, @carolynryan, @marlonawalker, @shannonajc1, @tiareports, @niketa, @byjoelanderson, @nicolefcarr, @bluestein, The Daily Beast and WAGA-TV
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Ernie Suggs / @erniesuggs: HISTORY MADE The @ajc has named @AJCLeroyChapman editor-in-chief, replacing Kevin Riley, who announced his retirement Thursday. Chapman will be the first Black top editor in the newspaper's 155-year history. RT this landmark moment in journalistic history https://www.ajc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Tamar Hallerman / @tamarhallerman: Big, big news this morning at the @ajc. Kudos to @ajceditor after a dozen years as the paper's top editor. So excited to see @AJCLeroyChapman succeed him — and become the AJC's first Black editor-in-chief in its 150+ year history https://www.ajc.com/...
Andrew Morse / @morsea: Today was a great day for us at the AJC. Kevin Riley, who has led this newsroom for the last 12 years, announced his retirement. Kevin is the longest-tenured major newspaper editor in the country. He has spearheaded award-winning w...https://www.linkedin.com/ ... https://www.ajc.com/...
Natalie Mendenhall / @nattheproducer: Congrats to Kevin Riley on a long and successful career. I also thank him for the kindness he shows us every Thursday on @PoliticsGPB. And congratulations to Leroy Chapman for making history! The sky is the limit. https://twitter.com/...
Raju Narisetti / @raju: Congratulations to my former @daytondailynews news colleague Kevin Riley @ajceditor, nearing the end of a terrific stint as the top editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and for having a worthy successor in place from within, in @AJCLeroyChapman. https://ajc.com/...
Jennifer Brett / @jennifer__brett: Such terrific news 📰 https://twitter.com/...
Jawn Staley / @errinhaines: Huge news for my industry and out of my hometown. Wishing @ajceditor the best in his well-earned retirement and cheering for @AJCLeroyChapman on his well-deserved ascent. https://twitter.com/...
Maya T. Prabhu / @mayatprabhu: And. He's the one who recruited me to the AJC. So on top of being so very happy for @AJCLeroyChapman, I am also very grateful. So #gapol folks, you can thank him (or cuss him?) for getting me five years ago. 🥰 So happy and proud for my friend Leroy. https://www.ajc.com/...
Kristi E. Swartz / @bizwriterkristi: tearing up just looking at this photo. @ajceditor had to steer that paper through so much muck, it was crazy, but he did it. And @AJCLeroyChapman is amazing. This is really really fantastic news. https://twitter.com/...
Greg Bluestein / @bluestein: It was a truly emotional moment in the newsroom. Kevin is beloved by the staff, folks are thrilled with Leroy's promotion. 📸 @ryonhorne https://twitter.com/...
Alan Richard / @educationalan: Wonderful news. As a former newspaper colleague of Leroy Chapman's in our native South Carolina, I look forward to continued good days ahead and growth at one of the South's most important newspapers. (And congrats, Mr. Chapman!) https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Redmon / @jeremylredmon: Amazing historic moment today for @ajc as Leroy Chapman @AJCLeroyChapman becomes the newspaper's first Black editor-in-chief. He succeeds the great Kevin Riley @ajceditor https://twitter.com/...
Amir Vera / @theamirvera: LET'S GOOOO!!! Big congrats to @AJCLeroyChapman!!! Leroy Chapman will be the first Black top editor in the 155-year history of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. https://www.ajc.com/...
@carolynryan: “My family traces its history back to Colonial times,” the new editor said. “There is an arc from seeing my family on census reports listed as property all the way to this.” https://www.ajc.com/...
Marlon A. Walker / @marlonawalker: Atlanta has an editor named Leroy! Congrats to new @ajc editor @AJCLeroyChapman! https://ajc.com/...
Shannon McCaffrey / @shannonajc1: Emotional hand off today. Thrilled for @AJCLeroyChapman who becomes @ajc's first Black editor. And so sad to see the great Kevin Riley retire. #gapol AJC names new top editor https://www.ajc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@tiareports: Words can't express how proud I am of you @AJCLeroyChapman. Let's go! @nabj #nabj https://twitter.com/...
Niketa Patel / @niketa: Fantastic news & so well-deserved! Congratulations @AJCLeroyChapman! 👏🏽💯 https://twitter.com/...
Joel D. Anderson / @byjoelanderson: Leroy has always been the best leader in the building and this promotion is ultimately a recognition of that fact. So happy for you, the newsroom, and the readers, @AJCLeroyChapman! https://twitter.com/...
Nicole Carr / @nicolefcarr: 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Congratulations @AJCLeroyChapman !!! And job well-done @ajceditor ! https://twitter.com/...
Greg Bluestein / @bluestein: HUGE news at the @ajc. The great @ajceditor Kevin Riley announces he's retiring. @AJCLeroyChapman will become the next editor in chief — the first Black top editor in the newspaper's 155-year history. https://ajc.com/...
Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Axios HQ, the software business spun off from Axios in 2022, raised a $20M Series A at a nearly $100M valuation to build communication tools with OpenAI's help — Axios HQ to use ChatGPT maker OpenAI to improve tools that help clients write emails, headlines
Discussion:
Axios, @roylschwartz, @jz, @chaykak, @mikerugnetta and @scottnover, more at Techmeme »
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Roy Schwartz / @roylschwartz: So proud of the @AxiosHQ team! We raised $20M to help invest more in our AI features for our over 500 clients! https://www.wsj.com/...
Jordan Zaslav / @jz: It's an exciting time to be building for AI tools for communicators .. excited for this milestone and what it will make possible for @axioshq customers https://www.wsj.com/...
Kyle Chayka / @chaykak: Be Smart: Let a robot write your newsletters for you. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Rugnetta / @mikerugnetta: AI-specific controversy aside, the quite premise of so much of this is that the Content Ecosystem will (and must!) continue to *speed up* rather than slow down - and that's just going to be a living hell for ... everyone. https://twitter.com/...
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
The FTC proposes banning difficult-to-cancel subscriptions via “click to cancel” rules requiring companies to make ending a subscription as simple as signing up — The US Federal Trade Commission is proposing a formal ban on subscriptions that are simple to start but difficult to stop.
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Federal Trade Commission, TechCrunch, @greg_doucette, @klausmiller, @chargezenjerry, @akivamcohen, @mondeboeuf, @politicussarah, NPR, @whstancil, @r_thaler, @linakhanftc, @linakhanftc, @mh4oh, @work_matters, @donmoyn, @neolithicsheep, @revelatrix, The Hill, @blackamazon, CNN, Boing Boing, Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, Insider, Ars Technica, MediaPost, Nieman Lab, Engadget, PCMag UK, CNET, Fortune, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, CBS News and Vox
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Federal Trade Commission: Federal Trade Commission Proposes Rule Provision Making it Easier for Consumers to “Click to Cancel” Recurring Subscriptions and Memberships
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: FTC proposes new rule to make it easier to cancel free trials and subscriptions
T. Greg Doucette / @greg_doucette: ::chuckles in DoNotPay:: https://twitter.com/...
Klaus Miller / @klausmiller: Interesting to see that @FTC is moving against #darkpatterns in #subscription #contracts. Our research contrasting auto-renewal and auto-cancellation in subscriptions shows that it's not always beneficial for the firm to exploit consumers! @N_sahni @AvnerShlain https://twitter.com/...
Jerry Abrahamson / @chargezenjerry: I hope this covers gym memberships too. 👀 planet fitness If you sell subscriptions or memberships; please for d love of everything good, don't make cancellation a maze. It should be just as easy as signup; churn rate may go up, but you'll be alright. https://www.ftc.gov/...
Akiva Cohen / @akivamcohen: “Make cancelling as easy as subscribing” is one of those obviously good consumer protection rules that I can't even imagine a reason to oppose. https://twitter.com/...
Major Duh / @mondeboeuf: @mediagazer @thedextriarchy As the @nytimes forced me to go thru a “retention specialist” before accepting my demand for cancellation (yeah, they had to “accept"), I did enjoy the opportunity (on a recorded line) to elaborate why I refused to renew. It was cathartic.
Sarah Reese Jones / @politicussarah: YES PLEASE https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Treisman / NPR: Still trying to quit that gym membership? The FTC is proposing a rule that could help
Will Stancil / @whstancil: I proposed a version of this regulation in one of my first law review articles in 2015! Absolutely wild to see it really happening https://illinoisjltp.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Richard H Thaler / @r_thaler: Hurray! The @FTC takes on #sludge. There is no reason why you can subscribe with one click but have to jump through hoops to unsubscribe. This is just pro-transparency, not overreach. @CassSunstein https://twitter.com/...
Lina Khan / @linakhanftc: 9. We are inviting public comments on the proposed rule and look forward to the input and feedback. https://www.ftc.gov/...
Lina Khan / @linakhanftc: 1. @FTC is proposing a rule to ban deceptive business tactics designed to trick or trap consumers into paying for unwanted subscriptions. The proposal would mandate “click to cancel,” requiring firms to make it as easy to cancel as they make it to sign up. https://www.ftc.gov/...
Morgan Harper / @mh4oh: Ever been caught unexpectedly renewing a subscription that you didn't want? FTC wants to hear from you. Let's stop companies from stealing our money! https://twitter.com/...
Bob Sutton / @work_matters: Looks like the vile “roach motel” strategy may be banned in the U.S. That's good government! #frictionproject I like @ft but won't subscribe again because of the massive hassle when I cancelled. My @ft experience was like @nireyal's ordeal @nyt https://www.nirandfar.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: This is a good example of the Biden administration siding with consumers by reducing administrative burdens that private actors impose on the public. More of this please! https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@revelatrix: i've worked for more than one consumer-facing tech startup that absolutely banked on the their ability to obfuscate the cancellation process and/or make it hard to return product. these companies do this on purpose and they absolutely will not stop on their own initiative https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: This would no lie be one of the greatest boons to journalism ever https://twitter.com/...
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing: FTC wants to ban subscriptions that you can't easily cancel
Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal: FTC Proposes Penalizing Firms for Onerous ‘Call-to-Cancel’ Subscriptions
Arianna Coghill / Mother Jones: Cancelling Your Subscriptions May Finally Get a Lot Easier
Jordan Hart / Insider: The FTC proposes ‘Click to Cancel’ rule that would make it easier — and cheaper — to cancel subscriptions and memberships
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: “Click-to-cancel” rule would penalize companies that make you cancel by phone
Andrew Blok / CNET: FTC Wants to Make It Easier to Cancel Subscriptions
Chris Morris / Fortune: Can't get out of that gym membership? The FTC has proposed rules to make it a lot easier
Kevin Hurler / Gizmodo: FTC Wants to End the Hell That Is Trying to Cancel a Free Trial or Subscription
Aimee Picchi / CBS News: EMBARGO 3/23 at 6 am: Subscriptions can be hell to cancel. Now, the FTC wants a new “click to cancel” rule.
Sara Morrison / Vox: The era of impossible subscription cancellations is nearing an end
Law & Crime:
Law&Crime announces plans to expand its YouTube presence through a series of acquisitions and partnerships with other channels in the true crime genre — Leading legal and true crime network Law&Crime announces plans to expand its YouTube presence through a series of upcoming acquisitions …
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Erik Gruenwedel / Media Play News: YouTube's ‘Law & Crime’ Channel Enhances Content Offerings
Mark Jacob / Nieman Lab:
Journalism schools aren't interested in banning Fox News, despite the Dominion case appearing to reveal that the network committed a breach of journalism ethics — Fox News appears to have committed a gross breach of journalism ethics: intentionally lying to its audience about the 2020 election.
Discussion:
@taraemcg, @melanie_asu, @markjacob16, @jayrosen_nyu, @froomkin, @markjacob16 and @niemanlab
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Tara McGowan / @taraemcg: “The whole journalism profession in the U.S. has been involved in this make-believe game of Fox as a normal colleague. And now it's slowly beginning to question that.”- @jayrosen_nyu to @MarkJacob16, who poses an excellent question to journalism schools 👇 https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Melanie Asp Alvarez / @melanie_asu: This is an interesting discussion, and dovetails nicely for any @Cronkite_ASU student who's ever heard my lecture on Cable News and the 24/7 News Cycle in #JMC110. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Mark Jacob / @markjacob16: Journalism's support system legitimizes Fox News. A Fox reporter sits on the board of the White House Correspondents' Association. Knight Foundation, a major charitable funder of journalism, sponsored an event with Tucker Carlson. And Fox's Maria Bartiromo is on NYU's board. 5/6
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “It's not just journalism schools — the whole journalism profession in the U.S. has been involved in this make-believe game of Fox as a normal colleague. And now it's slowly beginning to question that.” https://www.niemanlab.org/... My quote from “Why j-schools won't quit Fox News.”
@froomkin: Every journalist and journalism institution should renounce and sever ties with Fox “News” — except for journalism schools. I'm quoted here: https://www.niemanlab.org/... via @MarkJacob16
Mark Jacob / @markjacob16: I wrote this story for Harvard's Nieman Lab about why journalism schools won't stop dealing with Fox News on campus appearances, internships and jobs despite revelations in the Dominion lawsuit that Fox higher-ups knew the channel was spreading lies. 1/6 https://www.niemanlab.org/...
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